Non-refillable bottle.



J. VENO. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION nub JUNE 222, 19x0.

988,41 3. Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

Inventor u Attorneys Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES VENO, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, GANAlJA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

Application filed June 22, 1810. Serial No. 568,361.

To all whom it-mwyconcern:

Be it known thatI, JAMEBIVENO, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Vancouver,

in the Province of British Columbia, Do have invented a new and minion of Canad useful l\lon-Itefill able Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates to non-refillable bot tles and one of its objects is to provide a bottle having a simple form of valve located in the neck thereof, said valve having a plurality of ports designed, when the bottle is inverted, to register with. corresponding ports formed within the bottle neck and whereby. a tortuous outlet passage is provided for the liquid contained in the bottle. With these and other objects in view the invention-consists of certain novel. details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a central vertical section through theneckof a bottle having the present improvements embodied therein! Fig/2 is a similar view showing the positions of the parts when the bottle is inverted. Fig. 3' is a section on line A -B- Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of rcference l designates a bottle having a neck 2 in which. are formed parallel longitudinally extending passages 8 and 4, the passage 3 opening into the'bottle and also through the free end of the neck but bein in this face isrformed a series of preferably.

intersected by an 'imperforate partition a. The passage 3 is preferably cylindrical While thepassage 4 has a longitudinally extending flat face, as indicated in Fig. 3;

v A tubular valve 6 fits snugly Within the aassage 4 and is adapted to reciprocate therein, this valve-being closed at its ends and-being slightly shorter than the passage 4; which is likewise closed at both ends. The valve has a flat iace which-bears. snugly tgainst the fiat wall of the passage 4 and two ports 7. A port 8 is formed in. the neck 2between the passages 3] and 4 and-between the bottle body 1 and partition 5. Another port 9 is formed withinthe neck and between the two passagesata point above the. partition 5. These ports 9and8 are spaced apart the same distances as are the ports 7 so that, when the bot is inverted the valve" said passage.

will'slide-downwardly toward the free end of the neck and one of the ports 7 therein will be brought into register with the port 8. When, however, the bottle is in its nor" meal or uprightnposition, the ports 7 will assume positions removed from the .ports 8 and 9 and thus cut off communication between the valve 6.

It is to be understood that in filling the passage 3 and the interior of the bottle the upper end of the passage 4 is to be left. open and the valve 6 removed from After the bottle has been filled by pouring the liquid into the neck thereof, the valve 6 can be placed in the passage 4 and the outer end of said bottle neck fused together so as to close the passage 4. A stopper, such as has been indicated, for example, at 10, can then be placed in the outer end of the passage S'a'nd the bottle will thus be completely sealed. When it is desired to remove the contents of the bottle, the stopper 10 is firstiwithdrawn and the bottle is then in-' verted so asto cause the valve 6 to slide downwardly to bring its ports 7 into reg ister with the ports 8 and 9. The liquid contents of the bottle will then flow through the registering ports and into the valve from the inner portion of the passage 3 and thence from said valve through the lower ports of the inverted valve and neck and into the lower or outer portion of the passage 3.' As soon as the bottle is replaced in its normal or upright position, the valve will slide back and close theports 8 and 9, thus preventing the admission of any liquid to the bottle.

It will be'seen that a bottle such'as herein described is very simple in construction and. the valve, therein constitutes efiicient means for preventing refillingoft-he bottle after the removal of its initial contents.

Various changes can ofcourse be made in, the construction and arrangements of the parts Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the a'dvantagesof the in vention as defined in the appended c'laim.' What is claimed is A non-refillable bottle including a. neck having non-alining passages therein extendinglongitudinally of the neck, one of said passages being closedatits ends andthe' other passage beingclosed at an intermedla-te point, there ,being ports inthe walls of the passages for establishing communication there-between, and a hollow valve closed at its ends ahd mounted to reciprocate Within In testimony that I claim the foregoing the; closed (fassage, said valve havin a Hat -as my own, I have hereto afl'ixed my signaface provi ed wlth ports adapted, W en the ture in the presence of two Witnesses. bottle is inverted, to register with the ports JAMES VENO, in the wall of the passage, the walls of said VVit-nesses: closed passage constitutlng means for hold- A. EJGALPIN,

sing the valve against rotation. I. T. WITBEQK. 

